Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-18


= So when you ask ''what have the states
] which adopted the prohibitory laws Sc
! cured as compensation for long agita-
ton of this question with all of its para
lying diYisionf and discussions" have
8 notion to tell you. Your questions vii
be forwarded 70 the governors of these
states, but while waiting for fresh
answer to youe rather ill-advised criti-
cisms Of their internal affairs, you must
be content with the following, which is
nearly fresh. Governor Martin of Kan
sas, in his biSnnial message, 1887-this
year mark youA thus answers your ques-
ton:
ga great reform has certainly been &C.
complished in Kansas. IntemDerance is
steadily and surely decreasing. In thou
sands of homes where want and wretch
edness and suffering were once familiar
guests, plenty, happiness and content
ment now abide. Thousands of wives
and children are better clothed and fed
than they were when the saloons absorbed
all the earnings of the husbands and faith
ers. The marvellous material growth of
the state during the past six years has
been accompanied by an equally marvel
Gus moral progress, and it can be fairly
and truthfully asserted that in no portion
of the civilized world can 1900, 900 peo-
pie be found who are more temperate
than the people of Kansas.
"There is not an observing man in the
state who does not know that gfe8tre-
form has been accomplished in Kansas by
prohibition. There is not truthful man
in the state who will not frankly acknoWI-
edge this fact, no matter what his opin-
ions touching the policy Of prohibition
may have been. slE
"The public sentimenfof Kansas is over
whelmingly against the liquor traffic.
Thousands Of men who a few years ago
opposed prohibition or doubted whether
1t was the best method of dealing with
the liquor traffic. have seen and frankly
acknowledge its beneficial results and It's
practical success. The temptations with
which the open saloon allured the youth
of the land to disgrace and destruction;
the appetite for liquor bred and matured
within its walls by the treating custom;
the vice, crime, poverty, suffering and
sorrow, of which it is always the fruitful
EeuurCe, all these evil results of the open
tsSaloon have been abolished in nearly every
4 city and town in Kansas"
! Here is q message from Iowa:
Dies MONIES, Iowa, April 21.-Gov-
ernor Larrabee has written letter in re-
ply to an inquiry from the secretary of
the central committee of the prohibitory
campaign of Texas in regard 20 the work
ings of prohibition in Iowa. The Cover
nor says that in eighty out of the ninety
nine counties of the state prohibition IS
enforced, and in the remaining nineteen
counties it is partly enforced; that no
property has been deprecated by its en-
fCrCement, as saloons make room for
better and more legitimate business; that
the enforcement of the law has had no
noticeable effect upon the population be-
VoDd causing the removal from the state
Of some incurable dispensers and perhaps
some inCurable consumers. The effects
OF prohibition upon the general welfare
and habits of the people, ne says, are de-
cidly wholesome. The prohibition senti-
ment is on the increase, and there is no
doubt thRtsprOhibltiOn is an established
power in Iowa.
We also append the following telegram
from the Commissioner OF Labor Sta
j tistics:
II s. DIES MONIES, Iowa, March 23.-Gover-
lsEs and Attorney General both say prohi-
bftion, has constantly improved the moral,
! sCCialsnd financial condition of Iowa,
and is successfully inforced in eighty-fye
of the ninety-nine counties; also grow
ing rapidly in5the remainder.
E. r. HUTCHINS.
On February 3,I88Ta Governor Larrabee
also said:
y 81 find in the cities and COuntiesIWhere
the prohibitory law is well infOrced, crime
and police expenses fall of~WonderfulIy
Not q saloon is open in this, the largest
city in the state. The sheriff aaof this
county told me few days since that he
had spoiled his business by inforcing the
law. He also stated that he was glad GIFT.
! Several OF the judges have recently told
me that there was marked falling off in
criminal business in their courts in con-
| seqence of the enforcement of the law.
There are several judicial districts with
out single open saloon. If our courts
and sheTiffs and cOnstables would do,
their duty properly the saloons would
soon be completely driven out" ~
| And here IS one from Rhode Island:
! Hon. George P. Wetmore, Governor of
Rhode Island, in his annual address in
| 1887, said:
"All things considered, think it may
fairly be said that as good results have.
been obtained in it's enforcement as cauld
have reasonably been anticipated,
and as evidence of this l may
CICe Inc OuCIdI TSCOIQs VI Tue pOIlC6
department OF the cities of Prov
idence and Newport, whose statements,
which l assume to be correct, indicate
large reduction OF drunkenness and of
that class of disorder and misery which
intoxicants provoke and stimulate"
In the same connection l append two
kilograms sent out during the recent
Michigan campaign:
PROVIDENCE, r. l., March 23.-Increase
of arrests for drunkenness and revelry in
Providence last six months of license, over
Is per cent; decrease in first six months
prohibition, over ~ per cent. Common
drunkenness III same time decreased in
Newport, 100 per cent; Pawtucket. 80
percent; last two months, rs per cent.
Official figures. H. w. CONANT.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., March 24.-TheA
statistics from the city of Proyideuce,
the largest in the state, show an increase
of drunkenness during the last six
months of the license law of 1873 per cent,
while during the first six months Of pro-
hibition, as compared with the cor
responding period under license, drunk
enness decreased more than ~ per cent. |
The commitments TO the state wOrkhouse,
whose inmates are largely victims to the
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